Woke fail: Leftist says we should increase taxes for unvaxxed people, which would disproportionately affect people of color

Joel Abbott

Jul 30, 2021

It sucks when you're caught between wanting unlimited authoritarian power and virtue signaling your support of aNtiRaCisM.

What a garbage notion. Without even talking about how stupid and wrong it is to weaponize taxes in a system of medical apartheid, EJ is here to point out how this would disproportionately tax minority communities:

Oops. I bet Ian (who is a senior correspondent for Vox) didn't think about that factor in his totalitarian brain exercise.

From the Kaiser Family Foundation:

As of July 19, less than half of Black and Hispanic people have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in the vast majority of states reporting data.

And:

Overall, across these 40 states, the percent of White people who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose (48%) was roughly 1.3 times higher than the rate for Black people (36%) and 1.2 times higher than the rate for Hispanic people (41%) as of July 19, 2021.

Why do you want to tax black people, Ian???

It's hard to be woke these days!

I'll leave you with this:


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